The Crown of Embers [Paperback]

“One of YA’s best writers of high fantasy.”—Locus Magazine

The second book in Rae Carson’s award-winning andNew York Times–bestselling trilogy! Betrayal, love, and untold power fuel the heroic adventure of a seventeen-year-old princess turned warrior-queen. Fans of Lauren Roberts, Holly Black, and Sarah J. Maas will be riveted.

She does not know what awaits her at the enemy’s gate.

Elisa led her people to victory over a terrifying, sorcerous army. Her place as queen should be secure. But it isn’t. Her enemies come at her like ghosts in a dream, from foreign realms and even from within her own court. And her destiny as the chosen one remains uncertain.

To conquer the power she bears, Elisa must journey from the hidden catacombs beneath her own city to treacherous seas and a long-forgotten island. With her go a one-eyed spy, a traitor, and the man with whom—despite everything—she is falling in love. If she’s lucky, she’ll return. But there will be a cost.

The series includes:

• The Girl of Fire and Thorns
• The Crown of Embers
• The Bitter Kingdom
• The Empire of Dreams, a stand-alone companion novel

Rae Carson has proved shes a master and has shaken up the YA genre. . . . Nothing is held back. -USA Today

There are books you like, and books you love, and then there are the ones that make you go past love and straight into, I think I may need to marry this book. Preferably on a mountaintop with ribbons and stuff. The Crown of Embers was that type of book for me. Lovable, strong, but believably fallible, Elisa is one of my favorite heroines, and both her adventures and her love storyoh, her love story!made me think, made me feel, and made me want to call Rae lM